soldiershoulderIt was obvious to Gershwin that police officers were less willing to poke fun at themselves than any other group of people in the world.
Gershwin’s father wrote two academic books, Rethinking Modern Philosophy and Re-Rethinking Modern Philosophy. Both books did poorly, failing to become part of any curricula or required reading list at a university, including his own, and quickly went out of print. He wrote another book under the pseudonym, Kenneth Kent, called, The Philosopher’s Nightmare, which would have been consigned to the same fate as his previous two books but was read by the American author, Truman Capote, who found a copy of it on a train and liked it enough to give it to a friend, who worked for Universal Studios, and who ended up adapting it into a screenplay, w
